Thursday, February 25, 2010

The One with a Wardrobe Pick-Me-Up

I am soooooooo in need of a wardrobe pick-me-up (stop your snickering Chris and Dald, and all the other men out there who maybe read this blog). Do you ever just get so sick of staring at the same things over and over and over and you feel like you'll never look cute again? Kid you not, I have clothes in my closet that I've had since 7th grade. I'm sentimental. So I went to Target this afternoon and got a few new things and now I feel much better. Shopping is a nasty habit. But as long as I'm the bread-winner working my tail off day-in-and-day-out, I feel I deserve a few things to boost my confidence now and again.

Exhibit A: A cute yellow handbag. I've been using the same purse for almost two years now, time to switch things up. $15. Steal.

Exhibit B: Lately I've been putting on my clothes and saying to myself, "If only I had a pair of purple shoes to go along with these..." Now I do! $13. Not too shabby.

Exhibit D: I feel like my wardrobe, especially my pants, is lacking in color and I've noticed that Southern Californians are experts at wearing unexpected fun and bright colors and I just want to fit in darn it! So I got some cute pink shorts. $18. I love Target.

Exhibit E: Love love love this tunic. So pretty and flowy and colorful. On sale for $15.

Good job, Pailge! Cute stuff! I just ordered some really great sailor pants from Anthropologie. They said they were "short" but they're still about 12" too long. Aren't you glad you didn't inherit my stubby legs?

I seriously went shopping all day yesterday and all day today and spent so much money on the cutest stuff ever! I guess it's that time of year where the girls have to go out and shop for fun colors to get rid of the winter wardrobe blahs!

looks like i'm taking a trip to target today -- love the purple shoes! though i gotta say, utah target is crap compared to CA. in pasadena i'd bring new clothes/earrings/purses home from there like once a week...my new target constantly disappoints. :(

Paige, you are always wearing the brightest colors...and make them look good!! I live in Black and White....the last bathing suit I bought was even Black and White. Maybe you can send some color style my way! Haha.

Oooh, how exciting! LOVE the stuff you got! You SO deserve this pick-me-up! (And funny because as I was putting clothes away this morning, I thought of you! LOL. 'Member when you said you wanted to raid my closet?! LOL. I wish we lived closer, so we could share clothes!)

I'm from Seattle. Chris is from Denver. We met when we were 18 at BYU and got married in 2007 in the Nauvoo, IL temple. Chris graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 2013 - the Army paid for it and now we owe them 4 years of dental service. We are stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germanyfor 2 more years and we LOVE to travel all around Europe! I stay at home with our son Fox (4.5) and daughter Jane (3). Scrapbooking is my passion! I'm on the Design Team for American Crafts, a Contributing Team Member for Studio Calico, a Digital Creative Team Member for Ali Edwards, a Blog Contributor for Elle's Studio, a blogger for Scrapbook Expo: The Weekly Scrapper, a teacher at Big Picture Classes, a teacher at Craftsy, and I have an Etsy Shop on the side. I love to teach scrapbooking and bookbinding workshops all over the world. We love life and can't wait to see what tomorrow bring!